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24: Mike Nystrom — How to Bluff Your Way into Your Favorite College

Getting where we want to go does not always mean taking a straight path. You know that, but that doesn’t stop us from complaining when the road looks different than we thought. When the goal is clear, however, a turn can just be a turn, not necessarily a turn for the worse.

Mike Nystrom had a plan. Making that plan happen took running over hurdles, but in some cases pretending the hurdles were not there or running around them. Whether he made it to the finish line is what you will find out in this story.

Mike told this story in December 2016, a night we went without a theme.